From owner-cvs-ports Sun Apr 5 13:34:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA06199 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 13:34:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-ports) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (antipodes.cdrom.com [204.216.27.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA06152; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 13:33:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA00405; Fri, 3 Apr 1998 21:58:01 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199804040558.VAA00405@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: obrien@NUXI.com cc: ports@freebsd.org, mike@smith.net.au, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/editors/staroffice Makefile In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Apr 1998 18:57:27 PST." <19980401185727.07885@nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 21:58:00 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > * 4.x can't be > > * redistributed at all, which is why it's not been replaced. 8( > > > > Well, you can always make it a RESTRICTED port in addition to > > staroffice3. I can do a repository copy (staroffice -> staroffice4) > > if you want to do that. > > I've got the dist to start work on upgrading StarOffice to 4.0. > Has anybody else started working on this? A port of 4.0 is almost pointless, as you have no way of enforcing the installation target. This means that you can't uninstall it, coerce it to obey $PREFIX, etc. In addition, it wants to be installed on a per-user basis, rather than per-system basis. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com